She drinks, makes me wonder what her man did to be able to fuck that….maybe she’s beautiful on the inside.
SSS
January 27, 2015 4:13 pm
Back in the day, my wife and I were headed to California from Oklahoma. We stopped in Vegas and decided to have lunch at the Golden Nugget. At the main entrance, a security guy stopped us because my wife was holding our 1 year son and told us we couldn’t even WALK THROUGH the casino with a minor. He then gave us an alternate route to one of the restaurants.
Times have changed.
Chicago999444
January 27, 2015 4:17 pm
Las Vegas is an absolute pit- a magnet for every low-life in the country. What kind of mothers do you EXPECT to find hanging out in casinos and bars there.
Bea Lever
January 27, 2015 5:13 pm
I weep for our country.
People look like something out of the movie “Mad Max”. We are soooo fu$%ed !!!
That child will be the next generation of lowlife scum.
Didius Julianus
January 27, 2015 5:27 pm
Yeah, I had to go there three times so far, two conferences and one wedding and did not enjoy the place at all. Sodom and Gomorrah all over again.
Maddie's Mom
January 27, 2015 6:09 pm
My hubby has mentioned several times during the past 37 years that he would like to go to Vegas. Just once. I tell him to get going, but I have no interest in the God-forsaken place.
JC
January 27, 2015 7:00 pm
I’ve been several times…. Love the place… Drop $50 in video poker play a couple hands drink for free….
If you get tired of that, wander around watch the freak show….. I was lucky enough to see the last Sigfried & Roy show….
Can’t be beat…..
SSS
January 27, 2015 7:22 pm
“My hubby has mentioned several times during the past 37 years that he would like to go to Vegas. Just once. I tell him to get going, but I have no interest in the God-forsaken place.”
—-Maddie’s Mom
Let him go, if only to satisfy his curiosity. And if you can keep from tossing your cookies, go with him. Most importantly, ask him what he wants to do and what his expectations are. If it’s gambling and night life, well, you need to agree on parameters, especially gambling.
My wife and I last visited Vegas in 2008. It was her idea, and I just went along with it. Virtually no gambling (we quit that shit in 1994), just mostly walking the Strip and going to shows. That’s it. Never again. The glamour, glimmer, and sidewalk hawkers for strip joints were just plain repulsive. She got it out of her system.
TBP’s Official Marriage Counselor,
SSS
Westcoaster
January 27, 2015 8:16 pm
I posted this before but it’s on topic, so here goes….
My Wife & I get free rooms at the Orleans in Vegas. Nice middle-class joint and you can dine, gamble, bowl, go to the movies, or see a show, all without leaving the building. They’re in the process of upgrading their rooms and the one we got was a new one. New carpet, furniture, everything. Two nites free, and we aren’t whatchacall “high rollers”.
So we notice Grand Funk Railroad is playing on one of our free nights, and looking up the seating chart, there are a couple of 2nd row seats still available for about $65 each (1st row is handicapped/wheelchair). We usually buy the cheap seats and this has really become a problem at Blues festivals, ’cause the “VIP” section seems to keep getting bigger & bigger (and that’s about 2x as much). But I haven’t seen GFR since 1982, and 1st time for my wife, so we go for it.
Long story short, we get there and a row of seats is in front of us (the wheelies are the section to the right). Seating chart is wrong, but lucky us, the show starts and 5 seats in front of us are empty. Maybe because the seating chart is wrong, but whatever.
Midway through the 1st tune, a middle age Woman shows up and sits in the aisle seat. We’re thinking “seat surfer” and later we learned this was correct. So, couple more tunes that are way overamplified…painfully loud for the room; and this baldheaded & obnoxious mid-30 fatass shows up with his equally fat GF and his video camera, and proceeds to take over the airspace between us and the stage. There are no cameras allowed in this room, and this guy is taping the whole show with his handheld camera! Our seat neighbors are fussy about it and I’m just pissed…this guy bought the $25 seats (or snuck in) and is between me and the band.
So I run up the aisle, find one of the old guys who are ushers there, and lay it on him. A guy shows up, apparently w/o proper tix, and starts standing up & taping the show, along with his GF and one other apparent seat surfer. BTW he’s encouraging others to stand up with their cameras.
So I head for my seat, supposedly with the usher to follow.
I get back to me seat and the usher never makes it that far. WTF! By this time there’s probably about 20 standing in front of the stage and zero movement by the usher guy, security, or anyone else. The longer this goes on, the more concert-goers leave their cheap seats and move down front.
On the way out I told one of the other ushers that we wouldn’t be back, and this is the 4th show we’ve bought tix for at this room. It’s the Orleans showroom. The rest of the place is okay, but I’ve NEVER left the place on the plus side. Leaving Las Vegas for the last time.
Spinolator
January 27, 2015 8:22 pm
I think both sides are screwed, in a different way. I bet the banksters and corrupt politicians that created the EU knew this would happen. In the end they are the ones who benefit. The whole Greece deal reeks of stupidity, greed, and corruption. Powerful people stand to lose lots of money one way or another, so it is forced to continue until it can’t.
Spinolator
January 27, 2015 8:24 pm
Fuck…wrong thread.. Well, just put Vegas instead of Greece. No problem…
El Coyote
January 28, 2015 12:14 am
MM —
Las Vegas is nice but going alone is the same as going to the movies alone. For several years now, I have taken my wife on a three day vacation there. My old boss taught me that by example. He always took vacation around Rosh Hassanah and I asked him if he was Jewish, he said it was his wife’s birthday.
I used to take 8 days there but gradually found that 3 days in a hotel in Vegas is enought to drive me crazy. I’m not really crazy about shows but it breaks up the time. They had a great variety show with motorcycles in a sphere, that’s gone. The Bally’s showgirls is nice, the Flamingo’s X show is a little wild but not as bad as a now defunct strippers show they brought to the casinos.
Blue Man group is nice. I was fascinated with the idea anyway because of a movie I saw way back when movies cost a nickel, a man disguised himself in blue latex so that he looked like one of the blue men. He was kissing the girl but in my innocence I thought the girl was kissing an android. Wild.
The casino at the Cosmopolitan is fancy with many young people there. Bargain hunters seek out the new Linq. The M casino at the far end of the strip is not as Vegas as Vegas gets but it is a classy retreat, it looks like a hotel in San Diego.
Weekends are for young folks and their associated wild behavior. Weekdays are for old folks like my wife and I. Downtown is a gamble, the area is a little dicey, if you want to recall the old Vegas, the Riviera and Circus are across the street from each other.
The Rio and Palms are away from the strip and Arizona Charlie’s and Orleans are even farther from the strip feel.
We took a flight from Chicago to Vegas once, the whole plane was a makeshift casino. There are slots in the airport and in gas stations. If they put any slots in the bathrooms, I’d be a happy camper.
Maddie's Mom
January 28, 2015 5:33 pm
I’ve never played slots in my life. I’ve never even been in a casino. Life’s short. I’m not wasting a minute of mine that way.
My sister in law became addicted to slots sometime after she turned 50. Pretty sad.
I’ll take a good book (or blog) instead, any day.
Let me be clear
January 28, 2015 11:10 pm
Why is it that when someone has a strong antipathy towards something, he or she happens to have a brother or sister who is absolutely the ultimate Jesus Freak, gambling addict, FreeShitter or Obama supporter? Where is the love? I guess dear old mom loved Sissie moar.
She drinks, makes me wonder what her man did to be able to fuck that….maybe she’s beautiful on the inside.
Back in the day, my wife and I were headed to California from Oklahoma. We stopped in Vegas and decided to have lunch at the Golden Nugget. At the main entrance, a security guy stopped us because my wife was holding our 1 year son and told us we couldn’t even WALK THROUGH the casino with a minor. He then gave us an alternate route to one of the restaurants.
Times have changed.
Las Vegas is an absolute pit- a magnet for every low-life in the country. What kind of mothers do you EXPECT to find hanging out in casinos and bars there.
I weep for our country.
People look like something out of the movie “Mad Max”. We are soooo fu$%ed !!!
That child will be the next generation of lowlife scum.
Yeah, I had to go there three times so far, two conferences and one wedding and did not enjoy the place at all. Sodom and Gomorrah all over again.
My hubby has mentioned several times during the past 37 years that he would like to go to Vegas. Just once. I tell him to get going, but I have no interest in the God-forsaken place.
I’ve been several times…. Love the place… Drop $50 in video poker play a couple hands drink for free….
If you get tired of that, wander around watch the freak show….. I was lucky enough to see the last Sigfried & Roy show….
Can’t be beat…..
“My hubby has mentioned several times during the past 37 years that he would like to go to Vegas. Just once. I tell him to get going, but I have no interest in the God-forsaken place.”
—-Maddie’s Mom
Let him go, if only to satisfy his curiosity. And if you can keep from tossing your cookies, go with him. Most importantly, ask him what he wants to do and what his expectations are. If it’s gambling and night life, well, you need to agree on parameters, especially gambling.
My wife and I last visited Vegas in 2008. It was her idea, and I just went along with it. Virtually no gambling (we quit that shit in 1994), just mostly walking the Strip and going to shows. That’s it. Never again. The glamour, glimmer, and sidewalk hawkers for strip joints were just plain repulsive. She got it out of her system.
TBP’s Official Marriage Counselor,
SSS
I posted this before but it’s on topic, so here goes….
My Wife & I get free rooms at the Orleans in Vegas. Nice middle-class joint and you can dine, gamble, bowl, go to the movies, or see a show, all without leaving the building. They’re in the process of upgrading their rooms and the one we got was a new one. New carpet, furniture, everything. Two nites free, and we aren’t whatchacall “high rollers”.
So we notice Grand Funk Railroad is playing on one of our free nights, and looking up the seating chart, there are a couple of 2nd row seats still available for about $65 each (1st row is handicapped/wheelchair). We usually buy the cheap seats and this has really become a problem at Blues festivals, ’cause the “VIP” section seems to keep getting bigger & bigger (and that’s about 2x as much). But I haven’t seen GFR since 1982, and 1st time for my wife, so we go for it.
Long story short, we get there and a row of seats is in front of us (the wheelies are the section to the right). Seating chart is wrong, but lucky us, the show starts and 5 seats in front of us are empty. Maybe because the seating chart is wrong, but whatever.
Midway through the 1st tune, a middle age Woman shows up and sits in the aisle seat. We’re thinking “seat surfer” and later we learned this was correct. So, couple more tunes that are way overamplified…painfully loud for the room; and this baldheaded & obnoxious mid-30 fatass shows up with his equally fat GF and his video camera, and proceeds to take over the airspace between us and the stage. There are no cameras allowed in this room, and this guy is taping the whole show with his handheld camera! Our seat neighbors are fussy about it and I’m just pissed…this guy bought the $25 seats (or snuck in) and is between me and the band.
So I run up the aisle, find one of the old guys who are ushers there, and lay it on him. A guy shows up, apparently w/o proper tix, and starts standing up & taping the show, along with his GF and one other apparent seat surfer. BTW he’s encouraging others to stand up with their cameras.
So I head for my seat, supposedly with the usher to follow.
I get back to me seat and the usher never makes it that far. WTF! By this time there’s probably about 20 standing in front of the stage and zero movement by the usher guy, security, or anyone else. The longer this goes on, the more concert-goers leave their cheap seats and move down front.
On the way out I told one of the other ushers that we wouldn’t be back, and this is the 4th show we’ve bought tix for at this room. It’s the Orleans showroom. The rest of the place is okay, but I’ve NEVER left the place on the plus side. Leaving Las Vegas for the last time.
I think both sides are screwed, in a different way. I bet the banksters and corrupt politicians that created the EU knew this would happen. In the end they are the ones who benefit. The whole Greece deal reeks of stupidity, greed, and corruption. Powerful people stand to lose lots of money one way or another, so it is forced to continue until it can’t.
Fuck…wrong thread.. Well, just put Vegas instead of Greece. No problem…
MM —
Las Vegas is nice but going alone is the same as going to the movies alone. For several years now, I have taken my wife on a three day vacation there. My old boss taught me that by example. He always took vacation around Rosh Hassanah and I asked him if he was Jewish, he said it was his wife’s birthday.
I used to take 8 days there but gradually found that 3 days in a hotel in Vegas is enought to drive me crazy. I’m not really crazy about shows but it breaks up the time. They had a great variety show with motorcycles in a sphere, that’s gone. The Bally’s showgirls is nice, the Flamingo’s X show is a little wild but not as bad as a now defunct strippers show they brought to the casinos.
Blue Man group is nice. I was fascinated with the idea anyway because of a movie I saw way back when movies cost a nickel, a man disguised himself in blue latex so that he looked like one of the blue men. He was kissing the girl but in my innocence I thought the girl was kissing an android. Wild.
The casino at the Cosmopolitan is fancy with many young people there. Bargain hunters seek out the new Linq. The M casino at the far end of the strip is not as Vegas as Vegas gets but it is a classy retreat, it looks like a hotel in San Diego.
Weekends are for young folks and their associated wild behavior. Weekdays are for old folks like my wife and I. Downtown is a gamble, the area is a little dicey, if you want to recall the old Vegas, the Riviera and Circus are across the street from each other.
The Rio and Palms are away from the strip and Arizona Charlie’s and Orleans are even farther from the strip feel.
We took a flight from Chicago to Vegas once, the whole plane was a makeshift casino. There are slots in the airport and in gas stations. If they put any slots in the bathrooms, I’d be a happy camper.
I’ve never played slots in my life. I’ve never even been in a casino. Life’s short. I’m not wasting a minute of mine that way.
My sister in law became addicted to slots sometime after she turned 50. Pretty sad.
I’ll take a good book (or blog) instead, any day.
Why is it that when someone has a strong antipathy towards something, he or she happens to have a brother or sister who is absolutely the ultimate Jesus Freak, gambling addict, FreeShitter or Obama supporter? Where is the love? I guess dear old mom loved Sissie moar.